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The Lord says, “I have loved you with an everlasting love.”
- Jeremiah 31:3 (NIV)

I raise guineas, chicken-sized fowl that are fairly common on farms in the southern United States. Like chickens, these birds eat bugs and have a special fondness for ticks, which makes them great additions to farms with livestock. They also create a cacophonous uproar at the arrival of guests or...

Today's Prayer

Dear Lord, thank you for loving us no matter what. Help us to love others in the same manner. Amen.

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1 John 4:7-18

7 Dear friends, let’s love each other, because love is from God, and everyone who loves is born from God and knows God.8 The person who doesn’t love does not know God, because God is love.9 This is how the love of God is revealed to us: God has sent his only Son into the world so that we can live through him.10 This is love: it is not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son as the sacrifice that deals with our sins.11 Dear friends, if God loved us this way, we also ought to love each other.12 No one has ever seen God. If we love each other, God remains in us and his love is made perfect in us.13 This is how we know we remain in him and he remains in us, because he has given us a measure of his Spirit.14 We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the savior of the world.15 If any of us confess that Jesus is God’s Son, God remains in us and we remain in God.16 We have known and have believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and those who remain in love remain in God and God remains in them.17 This is how love has been perfected in us, so that we can have confidence on the Judgment Day, because we are exactly the same as God is in this world.18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear expects punishment. The person who is afraid has not been made perfect in love.

The Holy Service of Motherhood

"When I became a parent, I struggled to find God within the chaotic world where I now lived. I was used to contemplative prayer, to silence and service and listening for God’s still, small voice in quiet, hidden spaces. Suddenly none of my life felt quiet or hidden – it was all loud, messy, and exposed." Discover more.

—Lauren Burdette

Author of This Life That Is Ours: Motherhood As Spiritual Practice (Upper Room Books, 2019).